North Carolina freshman guard P.J. Hairston, the team’s top perimeter reserve, will miss Saturday’s game against No. 19 Virginia with what team officials are calling a “sore left foot.”

The school announced Hairston has been fitted with a protective boot and is being withheld from practice.

UNC guard P.J. Hairston is averaging 6.6 ppg off the bench.

Considered the team’s best pure shooter, Hairston has struggled to find his range. He averages 6.6 points and shoots 30.3 percent from 3-point range while playing a little less than 14 minutes per game.

Since his role expanded with an injury to junior Dexter Strickland, Hairston had one strong shooting game — going 2-for-4 on threes against Georgia Tech — but otherwise was 0-for-12.

Without Hairston, UNC’s only healthy perimeter backups are senior Justin Watts and freshman point guard Stillman White. They played a combined two minutes in Wednesday's loss to Duke and did not score.